Americanah
By
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2013 • 608 pages

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100 books

100 New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century

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Hardcover
My Brilliant Friend
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Wolf Hall
The Known World
The Corrections
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The Underground Railroad

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Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

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Mira
Demon Copperhead
All the Light We Cannot See
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Goldfinch
Pachinko
Educated: A Memoir
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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Truelit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century

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Govind
2666
The Neapolitan Novels
My Struggle: Book One
Solenoid
Septology
Lincoln in the Bardo
Austerlitz

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65 books

Building A Better World

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Indy
Outliers: The Story of Success
Surviving the Extremes
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Life of Pi

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54 books

Favourite Fiction

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Christina
Cutting for Stone
Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
The Thorn Birds
Empire Falls
The seamstress
The Time of Our Singing
Fall on Your Knees

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270 books

Ny Fiction

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Mallory McInnis
The Underground Railroad
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Wolf in White Van
Normal People
Norwegian Wood
Pachinko

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The Midwich Cuckoos
At the Mountains of Madness
All Souls
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La ragazza di Bube

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Mallory McInnis
Her Fearful Symmetry
It
Dazzling Diggers
Forest Born
Anansi Boys
The True Deceiver

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98 books

Great American Read

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Lindsay
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Joy Luck Club
Moby-Dick
The Pilgrim's Progress in Modern English
The Pillars of the Earth
Wuthering Heights
The Clan of the Cave Bear

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1,213 books

Literature

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Steven Rongley
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Slaughterhouse 5
A Clockwork Orange
The Invisible Man
Atlas Shrugged
A Princess of Mars

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511 books

Personal Library

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Susanne
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
On Beauty
Beatrice and Virgil
The Poisonwood Bible
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
Drown
This Is How You Lose Her

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792 books

Fiction

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Christina
The Wonder
You Will Know Me
The one-in-a-million boy
Started Early, Took My Dog
When Will There Be Good News?
Le mystère Henri Pick
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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37 books

All Time Favourites

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Christina
Anna Karenina
The Golem and the Jinni
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
To End All Wars
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
TransAtlantic
Americanah

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357 books

Owned Unread

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Brent Parkey
Giant
Destiny and power
Some luck
Outliers: The Story of Success
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Blood on snow
Midnight sun

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Contemporary

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Lory
The Shore
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Hag-Seed
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
The Assistants

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80 books

Books Read In 2013

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Hardcover Test Account
The Light Between Oceans
Sweet Tooth
Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir
Beastly Things
Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son
The woman upstairs a novel
The Dead

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49 books

2014 2015 School Year

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Sarah
Code name Verity
Shadow on the Mountain
A Snicker of Magic
The Bone Clocks
The Descendants
Endangered
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

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34 books

Audiobooks

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Amanda
Middlemarch
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
Bossypants
Cat's Eye
Americanah

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79 books

Black Authors

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Amanda
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Motherhood So White
The Worst Best Man
The A.I. Who Loved Me
Not the Girl You Marry
Notes from a Young Black Chef
Haven

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250 books

Fiction

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Andy
Exit West
Little Fires Everywhere
Brokeback Mountain
The Things They Carried
The Grapes of Wrath
Brave New World
Beasts of No Nation

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174 books

Novels

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Julia
Little Bee
The Tricking of Freya
The Lay of the Land
As It Was Written
Home
The Bone People
Clea

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51 books

Feministy

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Julia
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants
Object Lessons
Global Feminisms
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body
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Cleopatra: A Life

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17 books

Literature

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Amy
Of Mice and Men
The Sun Also Rises
The Sea
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Ella Minnow Pea
The Fourth Bear
Looking backward, 2000-1887

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12 books

2013 Favourites

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Anna
The Goldfinch
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
The Good Lord Bird
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Ancillary Justice
White Girls
The Luminaries

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56 books

Favorites

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Victoria
The House of Doctor Dee
The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
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Sophie's Choice
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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